“I had a beard before this show, so I’m happy,” Travis said during the panel (via HuffPo). “I’m not a dresser-upper. My publicist got me this shirt and I have to wear it. I think it adds so much. This show is so good that it gets some reality involved.”

FYI: Travis wearing a Life/After/Denim shirt.

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Vikings centers on the “sagas of Ragnar Lothbrok’s band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes.”

“[Travis] didn’t try to be a Viking, he had this deep Aussie accent, but he had depth, stillness and he believed what he was saying. Both myself and the director saw something, we had one of THOSE moments,” the show’s creator Michael Hirst recently shared.